Ronald V. Huggins

 I always smile when I hear someone say, "I don't care about the Bible, I just follow Jesus.  I'm a red-letter Christian."  I smile because of what Jesus himself says about Scripture. For him every word of Scripture is our very life.  He is continually quoting it as a final authority, referring to it, making arguments from it, and telling about how he himself fulfils it.  Indeed one cannot get very far in understanding what Jesus says unless we too are steeped in Scripture. So here are just a few examples of how Jesus talks about the Bible taken from Matthew's Gospel alone.   Matthew 4:4 -- Jesus quoting Deuteronomy 8:3.  If we live like Jesus every word of Scripture is our life. Matthew 5:17-18 -- Jesus affirms the Law and the Prophets.   Matthew 15:3-9 -- Jesus criticizes the Pharisees and teachers of the law for putting their traditions over Scripture -- Exodus 20:12 & Deuteronomy 5:16 / Exodus 20:12 & Deuteronomy 5:16 / Isaia...

Forty year ago, James Sire's book  Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible  provided me with my first lessons in hermeneutics and sound exegesis. The book shows not only how the cults misread Scripture, but how everyone does. Yesterday while working through the statement put forward by the leadership of John MacArthur's Grace Community Church (henceforth, the "MacArthur Statement") that provided their biblical rational for refusing to comply with Covid 19 restrictions, I was reminded once again of Sire's book, and spent a considerable time digging though my three-book-deep bookshelves, book bins, and book piles trying to unearth a copy. Finally I did. The reason I did is because the Church's statement provides several good examples of the kinds of misreadings Sire describes, including: Misreading 4: Ignoring the Immediate Context Misreading 10: Saying but not Citing Misreading 11: Selective Citing Misreading 12: Inadequate ...

This page is a mess, because I am in the process of compiling it.  But it is a treasure trove too New Catholic Encyclopedia 1 A-Azt,  2 Baa-Cam,  3 Can-Col,  4 Com-Dys,  5 Ead-Foy,   6 Fra-Hir,  7 His-Jub, 8 Jud-Lyt, 9  Ma-Mor,  10   Mos-Pat,   11  Pau-Pyx, 12 Qat-Scr,  13  Sau-Tex,  14 Tha-Zwi , 15 Index, 16  Supplement 1967-1974, 17   Supplement: Change in the Church, 18   Supplement 1978-1988, 19 Supplement 1989-1995 12  (Qat-Scr  13  (2nd ed.)) Compulutensian Polyglot Here and here Aquinas Commentary on John The fragments of Heracleon : Heracleon, the Gnostic : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Biblical Greek Resources: E. C. Colwell, " A Definite Rule for the Use of the Article in the Greek New Testament " T. F. Middleton, The Doctrine of the Greek Article The Gospel According to John in the Byzantine Tradition An Apparatus of the Gre...